On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:19 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > question is - should it? 'bdi_register()' a block device, > > but we do not have one. > > Sorry, wanted to say: 'bdi_register()' registers a block > device. BDI stands for backing device info and is not related to block devices other than that block devices can also be (ok, always are) backing devices. If you want to do writeback, you need a backing device to write to. The BDI is the device abstraction for writeback. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
